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Adaptive almost disturbance decoupling for a class of nonlinear differential-algabraic equation systems
(2016)A class of engineering systems is modeled by Differential Algebraic Equations (DAEs), which are also known as singular, descriptor, semistate and generalized systems. In the chemical engineering processes, the differential ... -
Adaptive control of a parallel robot via backstepping technique
(2006)Parallel robots have attracted more and more attention in recent years due to their kinematical and mechanical advantages. However the complicated high nonlinear model with unknown parameters and singularities make the ... -
Adaptive optimizer based on the sequential simplex method applied to the control of a thermo-mechanical pulping screening room
(2004)An adaptive optimizer is designed for control of multi-variable processes where the operating characteristics of the plant are time varying. Based on the original sequential method for static applications, the modified ... -
Analysis and design of networked predictive control systems
(2012-11-10)Recently Networked Control System (NCS) has been used in several areas and received much attention due to its applications. An NCS is a system with all its units connected through communication network, which is also called ... -
Asymptotic performance of M-ary signals on Rician fading diversity channels / by Hongwei Zhang.
(2007)In this thesis, we will study the average symbol error rate of M-ary signals on wireless Rician fading channels at high average signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in both single-carrier and multicarrier orthogonal frequency ... -
Attitude control of a quadrotor UAV : experimental results
(2015)The quadrotor is a type of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) which is gaining popularity over the past few years for its potential applications. Quadrotor UAVs are used, for instance, for surveillance, search and rescue ... -
Attitude control of a quadrotor UAV: experimental implementation
(2022)Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are becoming ubiquitous due to their potential benefits in many civilian and military applications. UAVs are designed to accomplish complex tasks safely and effectively, such as search and ... -
Attitude control of a quadrotor UAV: Experimental results
(2017)The quadrotor is a type of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) which is gaining popularity over the past few years for its potential applications. Quadrotor UAVs are used, for instance, for surveillance, search and rescue ... -
Attitude estimation and control of a ducted fan VTOL UAV
(2007)A significant area of current research is to develop aircraft which are unmanned. More specifically, some researchers are focusing on hovering type aircraft, or vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft. Since these ... -
Attitude estimation and stabilization of a quadrotor aircraft
(2011)In the past few years, researchers have shown great interest in quadrotor aircraft as a platform for UAV research due to simplicity of construction as well as maintenance, ability to hover in small indoor locations or ... -
Attitude stabilization of a quadrotor aircraft
(2004)The quadrotor aircraft has seen a growing interest in the research community over the past few years, with a focus on modeling and control however. Early rotating wing aircraft pioneers designed similar four-rotor aircraft ... -
Balance control of a five-DOF robot leg
(2015-06-15)A biped robot, also known as a humanoid robot, is built to resemble the shape and perform the actions of the human body. While functioning, a biped robot interacts with surrounding human environments. Currently, various ... -
Congestion and admission control in WDM optical networks
(2006)The demand for more communication bandwidth and network resources, has pushed researchers to find faster and more reliable data communication networks. Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) is a promising technology to ... -
Control of flexible-link manipulator
(1998)Flexible-Iink manipulator has many advantages over classic rigid body manipulator in industrial and space applications. However, it also poses high requirements on controller design, to ensure the accurate tip position ... -
Control of heat and fluid flow in solidification processes by an inverse method
(2000)The objective of this research is to produce a control scheme by an inverse method that is capable of acting fast enough to be useful in a real-time manufacturing environment. The scheme should provide a transient boundary ... -
Control of lateral vibration of an axially moving cantilever beam using piezoelectric actuators
(2005)A typical example of an axially moving cantilever beam is flexible robotic manipulators with prism atic joints. The model governing lateral vibration of such system is time-varying. Time-varying systems pose significant ... -
Design and implementation of a tunable vibration absorber and a time-delayed vibration absorber
(2005)Includes studies of a tunable electromagnetic vibration absorber and a time-delayed vibration absorber. -
Design and modeling of a CMOS VCO using wave digital filters / by WeiBo Li.
(2007)Wave digital filters (WDFs) transform an analog network into a topologically equivalent digital structure. A natural application of WDF is the simulation of electric circuits since measurements of any desired node voltages ... -
Design, simulation and control of a 12 DOF biped robot
(2012-11-10)The field of humanoid robotics has in the last several decades taken off as an active area of research. The goal of this field id to build robots which by having a human-like form will be able to work in environments ... -
Dynamic model and control of vehicles
(2006)In this thesis the author develops a 14 degrees-of-freedom (DOF) full-car model. The model draws from and improves upon features and setups of certain existing vehicle dynamics models. The proposed model provides a means ...
